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Alexander's
last battle
The Hydaspes River 326 BC
Page 005
"But
when Alexander's men, who far excelled both in strength and military
discipline, got the mastery over them the second time, they were
again repulsed towards the elephants and cooped up among them. By
this time the whole of Alexander's cavalry had collected into one
squadron, not by any command of his, but having settled into this
arrangement by the mere effect of the struggle itself; and wherever
it fell upon the ranks of the Indians they were broken up with great
slaughter. The beasts being now cooped up into a narrow space, their
friends were no less injured by them than their foes, being trampled
down in their wheeling and pushing about. Accordingly there ensued a
great slaughter of the cavalry, cooped up as it was in a narrow
space around the elephants."
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian, translated by E. J. Chinnock
Book V
